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Flood-control agency warns of severe funding shortfall; staff to draft resolution to ask state to study takeover of project levees
Summary
County flood‑control staff told the Board of Supervisors on Dec. 3 that the Flood Control Agency has roughly $250,000 in local operating resources after ERAF adjustments but would need an estimated $5–5.5 million annually to adequately operate and maintain project levees and channels.
Madera County Water and Natural Resources staff reported on Dec. 3 that the Flood Control and Water Conservation Agency faces a substantial funding gap that limits routine operations and larger maintenance work on project levees and channels.
Director Stephanie Agneson summarized 2024 accomplishments — inspections, targeted mowing, rodent‑control contracts, levee road repairs, and partnership work with River Partners for Arundo removal where grant funds permit — then described the agency’s structural funding shortfall. The county receives a roughly $1,000,000 property‑tax allocation for flood control, but an ERAF (Educational Revenue…
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